Over the course of the next four months we plan on capturing our adventures and experiences on the streets of Seattle with our cameras and journals.
How can they do that by waiting in line???? C'mon, they will have 1 guy wait in line (sit in a tent and watch portable TV and surf the net) to save the other's "place", then the other guy will go to work and stuff. Or maybe he'll "explore" Seattle and make a documentary.
Look these people who were mummified came from the caveman days!!!!!! They didn't call themselves "Europeans", "Finns", "Swedes", "Aryan", "German", "Ainu", or "Chinese". They were all just a bunch of smelly fur wearing cavemen with bad breath, bad teeth, diseases, eeking out a living.
They had nothing to do except wander around the world littering, hunting, grunting, farting. They formed groups and occasionally ran into each other. If they didn't war, they traded women or whatever. That's it. They didn't dwell on the racial politics or nationalism we have today!
They didn't care who was going to be thought of as the superior race by idiots in the future like us! They didn't care if all their wanderings confused scientists today! Cavemen had more important things to think about!!
I first learned Unix on BSD and Linux several years ago. I am grateful for Linux because it helped me get into the sysadmin field. But I have never worked with Linux on the job, just IRIX, HP-UX and Solaris.
The professional Unixes is where the $$$ is at. You don't need certifications, in fact they are frowned upon. A decent Solaris admin in California can make at least $70/hr contracting even in this bad economy. I am sure there are some Linux gurus making buttloads more, but they are the exception.
$TAR WAR$ I$ DEAD and George Lucas killed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, this next episode is gonna have the **lamest** acting, the sappiest lines, the most predictable plot and of course the most obnoxious CGI characters that will make Jar Jar Binks look like it was a swell idea.
Can you have sex with a Mormon woman in Utah if you are not Mormon? Or will you burn in hell or something?
If not, then they have to ship in the non-Mormon women in first before I go there.
I still get job offers from Hotmail, the MS site that needs to run on Sun and Solaris to stay up.
Thanks M$ for buying Sun, because we all know your shi**y operating systems aren't fit for the enterprise!!!
I CANNOT BELIEVE MY FELLOW GEEKS ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS!!!
Call the NOC, the sysadmins or network admins of a major ISP for a firewall change?!?!?! Are you OUT OF YOUR MINDS?!?!?
"Hello, are you the Sr. Network Admin for @Home"?
"Uh...yes?"
"Can you please open up port 25 so people outside your network can send email to your mail servers?"
"Oh sure, we take firewall change requests over the phone from strangers outside our network all the time. We don't even bother putting in change control, or discussing it with our manager. Afterall, our manager and his directors and the CEO don't care about all our millions of dollars of firewalls and security systems. We don't have any corporate policies or security procedures. This means we here at the NOC can do anything we want. I'll open up that port for you in a jiffy."
"Wow great! I'll you call back for more network change requests!"
"Great idea! Be sure to write down our number. We love answering calls from strangers, as well as users in our own company. Admins like us love helping users. Its been a pleasure serving you. Is there anything else my team of overworked network admins, sysadmins, and security experts can do for you?"
If you believe that the above scenario has any basis in reality, perhaps you deserve to find a sysadmin or network admin somewhere. He or she, after hearing what you have to say, will most likely take a shotgun and blow your brains out.
Wrong on all, obviously you do not work in high tech or with H1B's. The H1B's from India I work with have been in the US for many years, have hold different titles, worked for different companies, and they own stock. They like Datek, too. Their salary before taxes is around $80,000 a year. It's not so bad to be an H1B.
There is a HUGE demand for competent IT people, and a HUGE shortage of competent IT people.
You MUST work long hours here, and work a lot.
You MUST be able to work fast, this is the center of the world internet economy.
Training anyone over 50 in fast changing technology is impractical, takes too long, waste of time and money. Old people get sick, are slow, cranky, don't play Quake, etc. Versions of software and hardware come out too fast for older folk to handle.
All hiring is done through agencies. The agencies do all the paperwork bringing H1Bs here, so there is no waste of time!
The H1B's I work with make over $90K a year (and thats the money they keep, not their agencies!). Most in SV make over $50K a year.
I do not see any slave or sweatshop conditions or treatment. We are all treated the same. US Labor Laws even keeps H1B's feeling warm and fuzzy.
Before you can talk about H1B's, come out to Silicon Valley and work with them.
The present American education system sucks.
NY Times reporters and professors are just that, ignorant idiots with no real world IT experience.
I want MORE H1B's to lighten my workload!
Any human being should be free to live and work anywhere in the world. I dream of a world without borders.
I am a 29 year old Unix sysadmin in Silicon Valley, a US Citizen, with less than 3 years work experience, making over $80K a year..., but I make less than some H1B's.:-(
The French guy is nothing but a nationalistic piece of French shit who wants all French websites to be in French and who will not submit to the New World Order that is McDonalds!!!!!!!!!!!!
A 60/40 balance of what? Kernel engineers, software engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, sysadmins?
Or are you talking about desktop publishing, web design, technical/customer support, technical writing, PR?
Sure, there are a lot of women in certain areas of "tech", and in the tech industry in general, but they tend to be in the easier fields that aren't really all that technical.
Designng a webpage is not as technical as programming the actual web server itself.
The AP article was about the lack of women in "creating software", not about using software.
Does anyone wonder why men greatly outnumber women in science, math, engineering and technology fields across all cultures, ethnicities, religion, and political lines all over the world, at any given time in human history??
This is not an American phenomenon or some white male sexist chauvinistic conspiracy. It is purely Biology 101. You will find the same "problem" in Russia, Israel, China, Latin America, or Africa. Men greatly outnumber females in tech fields across all racial and ethnic groups all over the world.
The genetic differences between males and females simply lead to different tendancies in how men and women use their brain. In short, men tend to think better spatially and thinking of things as objects, whereas females tend to personalize in their thinking. Women have no trouble going into social sciences or practicing law. The men who go into tech fields tend to have the most extreme levels of spatial/objective ability. Even though most men do not feel comfortable or desire a science/math/engineering/tech career, because these fields really demand the most extreme in spatial/objective ability, most people who do will statistically on average be men, thus men will outnumber women.
Now, whether we want to increase the number of females in tech fields is a seperate issue. It depends on how far we want to social engineer people to do certain things because we want everything to be politically correct.
The excuse that women don't want to go into tech jobs because of us geeks is true, but it is not the core reason why women don't go into the jobs. That's like saying most men don't want to go into daycare because they don't like taking care of little children. Anyways, biology is not really interested in what you want or don't want, that is subjective, and for psychology to interpret. Biology is only interested in action, what you ultimately end up doing.
I'm a 29 year old Unix sysadmin. I work with old folks (40+) all the time. It seems to me that Unix system administration is one area in which age and experience actually helps. The longer someone has been in this career, the more knowledge, problem solving, solutions, and war stories this person has under his belt. Unix systems have changed, but if you think about it, they really haven't changed that much. They aren't even suppose to in many production environments. Unix is not like NT, which changes whenever the M$ sales and marketing people say so. The same experience and practices you use in SunOS 1.1 or whatever can help you (with proper porting) in Solaris 8. And a sysadmin fresh outr of school is usually no help. And if they are hacker types, would you trust them to run the machines of your corporation's main production database? Are they responsible enough? Raw talent is not enough. You need be highly responsible, attentive and have good judgement to be a good sysadmin (unless you are the hacker/sysadmin at work for an ISP;-) ). Anyways, I like working with old guys (and gals) 'cause I learn valuable practices from them. Its kinda like if you needed heart surgery, would you go to a doctor who is just out of med school with only a few operations under his belt, or a doctor who has had years of experience? IMHO, age and experience is an advantage in Unix system administration. If I was a Unix systems manager, I would see age as a plus, not a minus.
It seems we are finding planets around stars over 100 light years away. That's great, but are we finding planets around starts closer to our Sun, like within 20 light years? We have many stars close by, like the trinary Alpha Centauri (Alpha, Beta, Proxima) system right next door. Have we noticed any wobbles around nearby stars?
If I'm over-enthuastic, it's cause I'm fed up with all the crap from other OS vendors. I've worked with SCO, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, DGUX, and APUX.
You believed in all the crap from the vendors? You listened to marketing and sales people? That kinda goes along with the territory. Tell me, you think when Linux goes mainstream (and it hasn't, just visit a large commercial datacenter like Exodus Communications here in Santa Clara where its "all" Sun and Sun Solaris), that there won't be crap from vendors? What, you think all the Linux vendors will go saintly on us?
Oh yeah, lets not forget NT and the standard daily reboot. You're not making any sense. Are you comparing UNIX with NT?? Which flavor?
I've seen a lot of false promises and a lot of hype, alot of bloatware and alot of bull from sales people. Like it or not, Linux is it, because it's not about Linux but about controll and not being forced into one vendors stupid design and/or management decisions.
Your problem isn't with any UNIX-like OS, its listening to promises and bull.
Linux is just another version of UNIX. BFD. I'm sure once Linux is used outside of those little dual Pentium boxes that say "Intel Inside" (for a little more than show and tell by IBM or Compaq) that it will become popular.
Legally, UNIX is anything that follows the AT&T System V UNIX code.clone of existing UNIX.
Technically, we include BSD, because it follows the UNIX code before System V.
Linux is neither System V nor BSD, it is a
Linux is a UNIX in a very technical sense.
Programs written for one flavor of UNIX typically cannot be ported to another without considerable effort.
HUH?!?! It is hard to port C code?!?! I thought I saw the program "ls" on both Solaris and HP-UX!
The features offered by the different implementations vary widely: some are more secure than others, some cluster better than others, some offer journaling file systems, some are more robust. The differences between the different kinds of UNIX seem to be as great as the differences between any particular implementation and other OSs.
Did you attend some stupid marketing seminar on UNIX or something????
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It would be interesting to see any photos from satellites of the shuttle on re-entry.
The punishment should be no viewing of the next LOTR movie and Star Wars Episode 3 until the movies have been released for 5 years.
How can they do that by waiting in line???? C'mon, they will have 1 guy wait in line (sit in a tent and watch portable TV and surf the net) to save the other's "place", then the other guy will go to work and stuff. Or maybe he'll "explore" Seattle and make a documentary.
This isn't about Star Wars.
It just dawned on me that Linux is just Microsoft's secret weapon to destroy the competition.
See, just let your competitors turn to Linux. And watch their business go down the tubes.
They had nothing to do except wander around the world littering, hunting, grunting, farting. They formed groups and occasionally ran into each other. If they didn't war, they traded women or whatever. That's it. They didn't dwell on the racial politics or nationalism we have today!
They didn't care who was going to be thought of as the superior race by idiots in the future like us! They didn't care if all their wanderings confused scientists today! Cavemen had more important things to think about!!
BAH HAH HAH HAH ROTFLOL!!!!!!
Is that what you're learning in the KKK history books?
The professional Unixes is where the $$$ is at. You don't need certifications, in fact they are frowned upon. A decent Solaris admin in California can make at least $70/hr contracting even in this bad economy. I am sure there are some Linux gurus making buttloads more, but they are the exception.
Oh yeah, this next episode is gonna have the **lamest** acting, the sappiest lines, the most predictable plot and of course the most obnoxious CGI characters that will make Jar Jar Binks look like it was a swell idea.
I did a search on Dice and now found more Solaris admin jobs than Linux ones in Silicon Valley. Thats a change.
HEH HEH!
Can you have sex with a Mormon woman in Utah if you are not Mormon? Or will you burn in hell or something? If not, then they have to ship in the non-Mormon women in first before I go there.
I still get job offers from Hotmail, the MS site that needs to run on Sun and Solaris to stay up. Thanks M$ for buying Sun, because we all know your shi**y operating systems aren't fit for the enterprise!!!
I CANNOT BELIEVE MY FELLOW GEEKS ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS!!!
Call the NOC, the sysadmins or network admins of a major ISP for a firewall change?!?!?! Are you OUT OF YOUR MINDS?!?!?
"Hello, are you the Sr. Network Admin for @Home"?
"Uh...yes?"
"Can you please open up port 25 so people outside your network can send email to your mail servers?"
"Oh sure, we take firewall change requests over the phone from strangers outside our network all the time. We don't even bother putting in change control, or discussing it with our manager. Afterall, our manager and his directors and the CEO don't care about all our millions of dollars of firewalls and security systems. We don't have any corporate policies or security procedures. This means we here at the NOC can do anything we want. I'll open up that port for you in a jiffy."
"Wow great! I'll you call back for more network change requests!"
"Great idea! Be sure to write down our number. We love answering calls from strangers, as well as users in our own company. Admins like us love helping users. Its been a pleasure serving you. Is there anything else my team of overworked network admins, sysadmins, and security experts can do for you?"
If you believe that the above scenario has any basis in reality, perhaps you deserve to find a sysadmin or network admin somewhere. He or she, after hearing what you have to say, will most likely take a shotgun and blow your brains out.
So what's your ROI? Pu$$y or not. Heh heh...
Wrong on all, obviously you do not work in high tech or with H1B's. The H1B's from India I work with have been in the US for many years, have hold different titles, worked for different companies, and they own stock. They like Datek, too. Their salary before taxes is around $80,000 a year. It's not so bad to be an H1B.
All I can say is that
I am a 29 year old Unix sysadmin in Silicon Valley, a US Citizen, with less than 3 years work experience, making over $80K a year..., but I make less than some H1B's. :-(
The French guy is nothing but a nationalistic piece of French shit who wants all French websites to be in French and who will not submit to the New World Order that is McDonalds!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or are you talking about desktop publishing, web design, technical/customer support, technical writing, PR?
Sure, there are a lot of women in certain areas of "tech", and in the tech industry in general, but they tend to be in the easier fields that aren't really all that technical.
Designng a webpage is not as technical as programming the actual web server itself.
The AP article was about the lack of women in "creating software", not about using software.
This is not an American phenomenon or some white male sexist chauvinistic conspiracy. It is purely Biology 101. You will find the same "problem" in Russia, Israel, China, Latin America, or Africa. Men greatly outnumber females in tech fields across all racial and ethnic groups all over the world.
The genetic differences between males and females simply lead to different tendancies in how men and women use their brain. In short, men tend to think better spatially and thinking of things as objects, whereas females tend to personalize in their thinking. Women have no trouble going into social sciences or practicing law. The men who go into tech fields tend to have the most extreme levels of spatial/objective ability. Even though most men do not feel comfortable or desire a science/math/engineering/tech career, because these fields really demand the most extreme in spatial/objective ability, most people who do will statistically on average be men, thus men will outnumber women.
Now, whether we want to increase the number of females in tech fields is a seperate issue. It depends on how far we want to social engineer people to do certain things because we want everything to be politically correct.
The excuse that women don't want to go into tech jobs because of us geeks is true, but it is not the core reason why women don't go into the jobs. That's like saying most men don't want to go into daycare because they don't like taking care of little children. Anyways, biology is not really interested in what you want or don't want, that is subjective, and for psychology to interpret. Biology is only interested in action, what you ultimately end up doing.
Any tips on finding IT jobs in Las Vegas? Dice shows a few, but not a whole lot...
I'm a 29 year old Unix sysadmin. I work with old folks (40+) all the time. It seems to me that Unix system administration is one area in which age and experience actually helps. The longer someone has been in this career, the more knowledge, problem solving, solutions, and war stories this person has under his belt. Unix systems have changed, but if you think about it, they really haven't changed that much. They aren't even suppose to in many production environments. Unix is not like NT, which changes whenever the M$ sales and marketing people say so. The same experience and practices you use in SunOS 1.1 or whatever can help you (with proper porting) in Solaris 8. And a sysadmin fresh outr of school is usually no help. And if they are hacker types, would you trust them to run the machines of your corporation's main production database? Are they responsible enough? Raw talent is not enough. You need be highly responsible, attentive and have good judgement to be a good sysadmin (unless you are the hacker/sysadmin at work for an ISP ;-) ). Anyways, I like working with old guys (and gals) 'cause I learn valuable practices from them. Its kinda like if you needed heart surgery, would you go to a doctor who is just out of med school with only a few operations under his belt, or a doctor who has had years of experience? IMHO, age and experience is an advantage in Unix system administration. If I was a Unix systems manager, I would see age as a plus, not a minus.
It seems we are finding planets around stars over 100 light years away. That's great, but are we finding planets around starts closer to our Sun, like within 20 light years? We have many stars close by, like the trinary Alpha Centauri (Alpha, Beta, Proxima) system right next door. Have we noticed any wobbles around nearby stars?
You believed in all the crap from the vendors? You listened to marketing and sales people? That kinda goes along with the territory. Tell me, you think when Linux goes mainstream (and it hasn't, just visit a large commercial datacenter like Exodus Communications here in Santa Clara where its "all" Sun and Sun Solaris), that there won't be crap from vendors? What, you think all the Linux vendors will go saintly on us?
Oh yeah, lets not forget NT and the standard daily reboot. You're not making any sense. Are you comparing UNIX with NT?? Which flavor?
I've seen a lot of false promises and a lot of hype, alot of bloatware and alot of bull from sales people. Like it or not, Linux is it, because it's not about Linux but about controll and not being forced into one vendors stupid design and/or management decisions.
Your problem isn't with any UNIX-like OS, its listening to promises and bull.
Linux is just another version of UNIX. BFD. I'm sure once Linux is used outside of those little dual Pentium boxes that say "Intel Inside" (for a little more than show and tell by IBM or Compaq) that it will become popular.
Legally, UNIX is anything that follows the AT&T System V UNIX code.clone of existing UNIX.
Technically, we include BSD, because it follows the UNIX code before System V.
Linux is neither System V nor BSD, it is a
Linux is a UNIX in a very technical sense.
Programs written for one flavor of UNIX typically cannot be ported to another without considerable effort.
HUH?!?! It is hard to port C code?!?! I thought I saw the program "ls" on both Solaris and HP-UX!
The features offered by the different implementations vary widely: some are more secure than others, some cluster better than others, some offer journaling file systems, some are more robust. The differences between the different kinds of UNIX seem to be as great as the differences between any particular implementation and other OSs.
Did you attend some stupid marketing seminar on UNIX or something????
WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT SCO???? THEY"D HAVE TO PAY ME A MILLION DOLLARS TO WORK ON THAT SHIT!!!!